OF BIRDS. u S 



and larger than a duck. The beak is fhort, broad and black. 

 The plumage of the head, neck, and lower part of the thighs, 

 is black ; the belly cinereous ; the back variegated with black 

 and grey ; the fail-feathers a dark grey ; the fhort plumage of 

 the wings, white, black, and cinereous, in alternate variega- 

 tions. The tail is black. The back-toe is fhort, and flcnder. 

 The cafe of one fluft was fhewn Mr. Ray, at Sir William Foijlers* 

 of Bambrongh *'. 



11. The Soland Goofe (I) is often fhot in autumn in its way 

 fouthward from Scotland, on the commons near the Tweed and 

 Till, and fometimes in winter, both there and on the fea-coaft, 

 and in other parts of the country. It is as large as a common 

 heath-goofe, fix feet between the tips of the wings extended. 

 The beak is long, ftraight, fomewhat curvated at the extremity, 

 dentated on each fide, and of a deep cinereous colour. The 

 mouth is black within. The plumage, when full-grown, is all 

 over a bright white, except the Remiges or fail- feathers, which are 

 black for the fpace of fixteen inches. The crown, and upper 

 part of the neck, turn yellow with age. The tail is about feven 

 inches long. The legs are feathered down to the knees, and 

 black below ; the claw of the middle toe broad, and ferrated on 

 the infide. It hath four fore-toes, all palmated. The back- 

 plumage of the young ones is variegated with black and white. 

 The bird here defcribed was fhot at Keeper-Shield, near Haughton- 

 caftle, in the great fnow in March, 1763, and prefented to me. 



12. The Wild Goofe (mj, in its periodical flights fouth wards in 

 autumn from the fens in the north of Scotland, where it breeds, 



* Rays Topograph. Obfervat. Vol. j. p. 15. 



(I) Anfer Baflanus. SoLAND-GoosE. Charlet. Av. p. 100. 



(m) Anfer cinereus ferus, torque inter oculos & roftrum albo. Rudbec.k, plot, Anas ci- 

 nerea; fronte alba. Linn. Faun. Suec. p. 33. n. 92. 



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